Brazilian tourist on prices in Don Julio restaurant

[redlobster]

You get a small plate of food with little protein .

If you're after nutritional composition, not taste, lentejas are your best friend - very affordable and rich in protein.

 

[sergio]

If you're after nutritional composition, not taste, lentejas are your best friend - very affordable and rich in protein.

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Hand them to the homeless outside Don Julio.

 

[redlobster]

Hand them to the homeless outside Don Julio.

They prefer General Tso's Chicken.

 

[on the brink]

Nothing better in winter than a thick lentil stew with onions, tomatoes, and plenty of garlic.

Nutritious, cheap, and very tasty.

 

[RichardAlem]

Been here a long time and never had an interest to go there. It's a ripoff joint for tourists.

Not impressed with Argentine beef in the least. It is bland and hyped. I'll take Texas or North Carolina barbecue over Argie beef any day.

 

[Stevied]

We have eaten at Don Julio a few times, but it’s definitely not worth the cost. The food is good - but no better than a bunch of parrillas in BA that are half the price.

 

[ArgentinaVet]

For (relatively) expensive Argentine beef that is actually worth the cost by international standards go to Elena inside the Four Seasons Hotel in Retiro. The dry aged 950g T-Bone (which is actually more of a porterhouse due to the filet mignon portion being more than a sliver) is amazing and if I remember correctly was priced at around $90-$100 USD in early June 2025. This same cut was a shockingly low $35-$40 USD during the peak dollar blue Alberto Fernandez administration.

 

[Ries]

asían food is vastly more expensive in Buenos Aires than the usa . in chinatowns of san Francisco los angeles new York it's easy to eat for less than US 10 dollars . here in Buenos Aires Even for double that You get a small plate of food with little protein . look at this link below for 5 dollar meals in new York city . in Buenos Aires You could not find this same plate Even for 4 times as much

I dont know when you last ate asian food in the USA, but nowhere I have been in years has been five dollars!
Thats crazy. Maybe for pre-frozen fast food that heated in a microwave, at a gas station, but any asian restaurant on the West Coast, or in any major city is a lot more, and even premade supermarket sushi thats really bad is $10 to $15 for a tray, and a real meal would be two of them.
very low quality bbq pork, in a plastic tub, cold, is much more than five bucks.
I live in a rural area, not in the middle of an expensive city.
All the Thai, Korean, or Japanese restaurants around here are $20 to $30 per person, not including drinks. The better ones are more.
There are sometimes teriyaki fast food places, where no asian actually works, and everything is msg and sugar, like the ones in the small farm town near me- and they charge $14 to $20 per person, without drinks, for basically takeout food served from premade casseroles.

In a town like Seattle, an average sushi place is easily $50 per person if you have one of those $8 japanese beers, or more if you order sake. There are at least a dozen or so omakase places that are far from the best that are $100 per person plus drinks. The actual good, 50 year old japanese family restaurants in the equivalent of barrio chino are more.
This is common in every american city I have been in for a long time.
You are dreaming about prices in the USA.
virtually all food is more expensive than in argentina.
I know- I live 6 months of every year in each.
I see the exact same foods in both, and know the prices.
Steak, for example, at a local place near me is $50. plus sides and drinks.
In a city, be it Phoenix or Houston or NYC or LA, the equivalent to Don Julio is more than Don Julio.
In Seattle, Most have price fixed menus that are in the $150 to $200 range, each, plus drinks, of course.
And grocery store prices are much higher here as well.
I will be back in BA in September, and my monthly food bills go down.

 

[perry]

I dont know when you last ate asian food in the USA, but nowhere I have been in years has been five dollars!
Thats crazy. Maybe for pre-frozen fast food that heated in a microwave, at a gas station, but any asian restaurant on the West Coast, or in any major city is a lot more, and even premade supermarket sushi thats really bad is $10 to $15 for a tray, and a real meal would be two of them.
very low quality bbq pork, in a plastic tub, cold, is much more than five bucks.
I live in a rural area, not in the middle of an expensive city.
All the Thai, Korean, or Japanese restaurants around here are $20 to $30 per person, not including drinks. The better ones are more.
There are sometimes teriyaki fast food places, where no asian actually works, and everything is msg and sugar, like the ones in the small farm town near me- and they charge $14 to $20 per person, without drinks, for basically takeout food served from premade casseroles.

In a town like Seattle, an average sushi place is easily $50 per person if you have one of those $8 japanese beers, or more if you order sake. There are at least a dozen or so omakase places that are far from the best that are $100 per person plus drinks. The actual good, 50 year old japanese family restaurants in the equivalent of barrio chino are more.
This is common in every american city I have been in for a long time.
You are dreaming about prices in the USA.
virtually all food is more expensive than in argentina.
I know- I live 6 months of every year in each.
I see the exact same foods in both, and know the prices.
Steak, for example, at a local place near me is $50. plus sides and drinks.
In a city, be it Phoenix or Houston or NYC or LA, the equivalent to Don Julio is more than Don Julio.
In Seattle, Most have price fixed menus that are in the $150 to $200 range, each, plus drinks, of course.
And grocery store prices are much higher here as well.
I will be back in BA in September, and my monthly food bills go down.

Ríes did you bother to look at the link AND see the prices that can be easily verified by Google . Fast food Is vastly More expensive in Argentina than Usa . Tacos a mexican fast food can be had easily for a less than 10 dollars for three tacos in los angeles or most cities in usa . Here in Buenos Aires three tacos are never less than 15000 pesos . Fast food hamburgers are way cheaper usa buffet libres much More reasonable in price than Buenos Aires where good quality buffet libres are nearly double comparable prices in usa the cheapest good quality buffets in Buenos Aires are 40 dollars per person. There ate Many better óptions in los angeles and new York for less than 30 dollars a person ..

Ríes plesse click en the link from a great new York chinese restaurant . The Portions are huge and the prices are up to three times less than Cang tin in Palermo

Wah Fung No 1 Menu: Discover Affordable Cantonese Fast Food Delights

Explore the mouthwatering Wah Fung No 1 menu featuring generous portions of roast pork, chicken, and flavorful rice dishes. Located in NYCs Chinatown, enjoy quick service and delicious Cantonese meals at unbeatable prices — cash only!

wah-fung-no-1.restaurants-world.com

this is a amazing chinese buffet in new York for just US 20 per person with great food Quality including sashimi . here in Buenos Aires there is absolutely nothing similar and the only peruvian buffet of very low Quality food is 25 dollars with only a very límited selection of foods asu mara on Anchorena abasto . fast food in the usa is vastly superior in Quality and Price .

 

[Ries]

again, I live in both places each and every year.
I am comparing apples to apples.
I can buy an empanada for 1000 pesos, or a whole lot more than that.
but nothing in the USA is cheap anymore and the tavern burgers near me are $20 to $25.
A corned beef sandwich in NYC is $28 at Katz Deli.
Yes, there are cheap bad food options, but not as cheap as I can find in BA. Around the corner from my old apartment, on Guemes, is Nero Pizza, which is a high quality neapolitan style pizza. 13,000 pesos. Thats $10.70 at the current exchange rate.
Similar quality near me (and I have eaten plenty at both) is $22 usd for the same size pizza.
Double the price in dollars, same quality. This is not LA or NYC, where prices are even higher.
Yes, UGOs is cheaper. and as my argentine friends say in their bad english- YouGo, cause nobody I know will.